8/07/2013

Coach Barbie Doll

The highly publicized Coach Barbie Doll goes on sale in a few hours at BC.Com. It's one of the Gold Label releases and retails for $95.

My opinion of this unarticulated doll with plastic shoes: I like the coat and the real leather coach handbag. The doll has a nice hairstyle. I wonder what the outfit looks like underneath the coat. Another doll in the same position as thousands before her does nothing for me. The price is high and yet, people will buy her.

Here's the text from Mattel's site:

She wears a Classic Trench in Tattersall, an exact replica of the popular
Coach style, along with a striped sweater and an ultrasuede skirt. The
turnlocks on the skirt are exact replicas of the Coach handbag
turnlocks. But it’s her red Classic Duffle that marks a fashion
milestone: this is Barbie® doll’s first genuine leather bag,
made from start to finish in a Coach factory with the same care and
attention given to every Coach bag. The Classic Duffle includes a
drawstring dust bag.

Now if the shoes were leather and the doll were articulated, I might consider her. Or maybe if it were a Silkstone doll...

What do you think? Is the miniature Coach handbag worth it? Perhaps that's the way to look at it.

I bought her because of the $35 discount. ($20 coupon and $15 promo discount currently going on. So breaking it down, I paid $20 for the handbag, $20 for the outfit and $20 for the doll because the Lara mold is one of my faves. Most outfits sold don't come with shoes, so I didn't even consider those in my thought process.

I do like this doll's face. I find that for some reason, I dislike the Silkstone faces. The bag is very nice. But the package doesn't seem to justify $95.00 to me. Or $60. And I think maybe it's because at some point, it started to creep me out that Barbie's feet are always way too small.

For me, I honestly prefer the unarticulated, ModelMuse body sculpt on most collectible Barbies. I believe it does make the collector Barbies more sophisticated and elegant. Somehow articulation seems a little bit sloppy, and the joints showing is unflattering. The limited poses is not actually an issue, as the ModelMuse sculpt is versatile enough in what I've seen in many collectors taking pictures of them. To me, a ModelMuse body sculpt is like a mannequin, with fixed posses to display fashion. Surely you can't expect a mannequin to be articulated...

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